Eletronics 101
Potential Course taught for Seattle Makers
Discussed w/ Sam on 25-12-11
- They have ~20 cases for Arduino starter kits:
Super Starter Kit UNO R3 Project
- Brandon & Hank were in Lab giving ideas as well
- Hank recommended to look at other curriculums
Class Specs
- Estimated Length of time: 2+ hours
- Estimated # of people: 3-6 people
Things to cover
- Mulitmeter
- Ohm's Law: V = IR
- AC vs DC voltages
- High vs Low voltages
- battery/outlet power
- Batteries in Parallel vs Series
- Some basic coding
- Parts of Arduino
- Run arduino off of battery vs computer/charger
- Applicance fuses/Home Fuses/Circuit Breakers
Cool simple projects
- PWM control for server motor
- LED/Resistor Circuit via Arduino + Breadboard
- why is a resistor needed
- Potentiometer to control music (synthesizer)
- Leds change color based on music
Extra
Probably too far
- Capacitors
- RC filters
- analog output, passing in AC and removing DC
- Voltage Dividers